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Seminars

Workshop Descriptions

Application of Customer Requirements

Are you aware that there are both product and system requirements from your customers? Do you understand customer performance reports and what is expected? What are your problems relating to customer requirements? How do you know what your customer requires? This is an interactive “hands-on” workshop to help you answer these questions. You will be provided with detailed system tools to help discover and implement them into your system.

What You Will Gain From This Workshop:

  • Understanding the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach in customer specifics
  • Non-conformance avoidance by understanding customer specifics
  • The use and importance of customer performance reports
  • How to use customer specifics in your management review and internal audit
  • The role of customer specifics in the product realization process

 

Mapping Processes & Interactions

Are your processes actually describing the business system you use every day? Do you have difficulty showing how support and remote processes interact with the system? Businesses are run by processes to meet business plan objectives for profit and customer satisfaction. This interactive workshop will help you with tools to use in your organization to achieve your business objectives. This is a “hands on” workshop. Bring your processes for a quick evaluation.

What You Will Gain From This Workshop :

  • Core process identification and interaction
  • How to audit a process
  • Components and analysis of a process
  • How to complete the process summary matrix

Effective Internal Audit & Management Review

Are you getting what you need from your management review and internal audit? Is your management review helping to improve your business? Does the internal audit help drive the continual improvement program? If you cannot say “yes” to each of these questions this workshop is for you.

What You Will Gain From This Workshop :

  • Efficient use of the management review to fulfill requirements
  • Evaluating the internal audit for value added performance
  • Components of management review and actions
  • The three types of audits and how to use them easily
  • What is an effective management review
  • The automotive process approach to audits

Who Should Attend?

Implementation team members and organization members that have responsibility for maintaining and improving your ISO/TS 16949:2002 and/or ISO 9001:2000 system. Familiarity with the ISO/TS 16949 standard will increase the value of these workshops.

Instructors

Ray Ness , Automotive Training Manager for IASC, is a certified ISO/TS 14949:2002 assessor with over 20 years of automotive Tier 1 quality program experience. His areas of expertise include Automotive Quality Systems, Plant Management, Purchasing and Supplier Management, Process Engineering, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP). He has been with IASC for over 9 years. Ray is an ISO/TS 16949:2002, QS-9000, ISO 9001:2000, QS-9000 T&E, and ISO 14001 auditor. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Grand Valley State University.

Jim Dickinson is a Lead Assessor/Senior Trainer for IASC. He brings more than 30 years of automotive and auditing experience to the classroom. Jim has hands-on experience in Manufacturing, Product Development, Logistics, Quality and Management in both Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers as well as with OEMs. He spent more than 10 years as an international quality consultant working in the US, Latin America and Asia. He is an ANAB Lead Auditor and certified for auditing automotive systems. Jim holds a BS in education from Michigan State University.

Schedule

2006 dates Coming Soon. Please check again later.

*All workshops will run from 8a-4p
*Confirmation will be sent via email and will include location details

Costs

Multiple Workshop Discounts

Company Discounts

Register for 1 workshop: $429 1 workshop, 3 people from same company: $399/pp
Register for 2 workshops: $359 ea. 2 workshops, 3 people from same company: $339/pp, ea. workshop
Register for 3 workshops: $319 ea. 3 workshops, 3 people from same company: $299/pp, ea. workshop

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations 2 weeks prior to the seminar date will be completely refunded. Cancellations within 2 weeks of the seminar are non-refundable but you may send a substitute.


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